Download or read book Love Beads from Elvis written by Kathy Tatum and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary, a King, and a young girl's heart. Love Beads from Elvis: The Diary of Kathy Tatum I wasn't looking for it, but I found it just the same. The red leather covering is well worn, and the locking clasp that once kept my secrets safe from the world is missing. There is duct tape on the binding, and the page edges have yellowed over time, but it is, after all, almost fifty years old. A well-worn Polaroid photo slips out... I remember vividly the night it was taken, oh, to be held in his strong arms. He was beautiful then-his skin tanned to a golden brown, his jet black hair neatly combed straight back, how it felt when he gently kissed the back of my neck and sang softly into my ear...
Download or read book Elvis and Kathy written by Kathy Westmoreland and published by Glendale House Pub. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life with Elvis written by David Stanley and published by Fleming H. Revell Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unfaithful Music Disappearing Ink written by Elvis Costello and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal introspective by the influential pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original punk sounds, and emergence in the MTV world.
Download or read book Elvis Presley s Love Me Tender written by Elvis Presley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king of rock-and-roll's #1 hit song "Love Me Tender" is now an endearing picture book Adapted from the unforgettable classic song, Elvis Presley's Love MeTender is a heartwarming ode to the special bond between children and the adults who love and care for them--be they parents, grandparents, adoptive parents, aunts, uncles, or guardians. With its simple, timeless message, Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender is destined to join Guess How Much I Love You as a baby shower staple. And the sweet, inclusive illustrations make it a book every family will treasure "all through the years, 'till the end of time."
Download or read book Untold Gold written by Ace Collins and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories behind the luck, inspiration, and timing that brought hits like "Heartbreak Hotel," "Don't Be Cruel," "In the Ghetto," and "A Little Less Conversation" to life are told in this look at some of the world's most popular hits. Fans will be given the inside story of how these and other of the best known rock songs were written, why they were recorded, and how they became hits. Along the way, they will meet and get to know the men and women who wrote songs for the "King," follow the route these songs took to Elvis, and understand how he reshaped the songs to fit his vision. The author spent countless hours interviewing songwriters, digging through dusty charts, and listening to demos in order to uncover the great stories he tells here. Each song in this book is a commentary on where the world was and what was making it tick, making these songs as much a glimpse into the life of America as into the life of Elvis.
Download or read book Being Elvis A Lonely Life written by Ray Connolly and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “sympathetic and exceptionally well-written account” (USA Today), Ray Connolly’s biography of the King soars with “spontaneity and electricity” (Preston Lauterbach). Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. A godlike entity in the history of rock and roll, this twentieth-century icon with a dazzling voice blended gospel and traditionally black rhythm and blues with country to create a completely new kind of music and new way of expressing male sexuality, which simply blew the doors off a staid and repressed 1950s America. In Being Elvis veteran rock journalist Ray Connolly takes a fresh look at the career of the world’s most loved singer, placing him, forty years after his death, not exhaustively in the garish neon lights of Las Vegas but back in his mid-twentieth-century, distinctly southern world. For new and seasoned fans alike, Connolly, who interviewed Elvis in 1969, re-creates a man who sprang from poverty in Tupelo, Mississippi, to unprecedented overnight fame, eclipsing Frank Sinatra and then inspiring the Beatles along the way. Juxtaposing the music, the songs, and the incendiary live concerts with a personal life that would later careen wildly out of control, Connolly demonstrates that Elvis’s amphetamine use began as early as his touring days of hysteria in the late 1950s, and that the financial needs that drove him in the beginning would return to plague him at the very end. With a narrative informed by interviews over many years with John Lennon, Bob Dylan, B. B. King, Sam Phillips, and Roy Orbison, among many others, Connolly creates one of the most nuanced and mature portraits of this cultural phenomenon to date. What distinguishes Being Elvis beyond the narrative itself is Connolly’s more subtle examinations of white poverty, class aspirations, and the prison that is extreme fame. As we reach the end of this poignant account, Elvis’s death at forty-two takes on the hue of a profoundly American tragedy. The creator of an American sound that resonates today, Elvis remains frozen in time, an enduring American icon who could “seamlessly soar into a falsetto of pleading and yearning” and capture an inner emotion, perhaps of eternal yearning, to which all of us can still relate. Intimate and unsparing, Being Elvis explores the extravagance and irrationality inherent in the Elvis mythology, ultimately offering a thoughtful celebration of an immortal life.
Download or read book Child Bride written by Suzanne Finstad and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth-shattering account of the most famous—and most taboo—marriage in rock-and-roll history “Fascinating . . . Finstad’s research and her analysis of Priscilla’s complex character make for a riveting read.”—New York Post The real story [of Elvis and Priscilla] is infinitely more powerful than the myth and, ultimately, tragic; the true Priscilla more complex. Priscilla Beaulieu Presley is not, and never was, the fragile, demure child-woman she has come to personify; she is, in a word, a survivor, a woman of indomitable will and almost frightening determination.—from the Author’s Note Child Bride reveals the hidden story of rock icon Elvis Presley’s affair with fourteen-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, the ninth-grader he wooed as a G.I. in Germany and cloistered at Graceland before marrying her to fulfill a promise to her starstruck parents. But who is Priscilla—and what was her role in their infamous relationship? Award-winning biographer Suzanne Finstad perceptively pieces together the clues from candid interviews with all the Presley intimates—including Priscilla herself, along with hundreds of sources who have never before spoken publicly—to uncover the truth behind the legend of Elvis and Priscilla, a tumultuous tale of sexual attraction and obsession, heartbreak and loss. Child Bride, the definitive biography of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, unveils the controversial woman who evolved from a lonely teenager bound to the King of Rock and Roll into a shrewd businesswoman in control of the multimillion-dollar Elvis Presley empire—a rags-to-riches saga of secrets, lies, and betrayal.
Download or read book Elvis World written by Jane Stern and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the cultural phenomenon that Elvis was and continues to be ten years after his death, this is the first book to be published with the authority of Graceland, who allowed the authors access to their extensive photographic archives. Apart from outlining his music, his movies, his life and the legend, Elvis memorabilia photographs are included, such as 1950s fan magazines, Elvis wallets and handkerchiefs.
Download or read book Great Expectations written by Kathy Acker and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Empire of the Senseless gives the Dickens classic a punk twist, setting it in 1980s New York City. Kathy Acker’s practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious—as a rebel and a groundbreaker—when Great Expectations was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens’s classic—splicing it with passages from Pierre Guyotat’s sexually violent Eden, Eden, Eden, among other texts—alongside Acker’s trademark pithy dialogue, as well as prank missives to the likes of Susan Sontag, Sylvère Lotringer, and God. At the center of this form-shifting narrative, Acker’s protagonist collects an inheritance following her mother’s suicide, which compels her to revisit and reinterpret traumatic scenes from the past. Switching perspectives, identities, genders, and centuries, the speaker lustily ransacks world literature to celebrate and challenge the discourse around art, love, life, and death. Praise for Great Expectations “Great Expectations in its boisterousness and strong language and sense of the injustice-of-it-all is closely related to Henry Miller.” —Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times “Acker’s most accomplished experimental work. . . . As she says in Great Expectations, “a narrative is an emotional moving.” It should be, but she’s one of the few people . . . who manage to blend that kind of warmth, gutsiness, and skill.” —Sally O’Driscoll, Village Voice “[Acker’s] most completely unified work of art. . . . One that by its formal concentration and its unified shape at every depth of reading fulfills the sort of demands that Sterne or Canetti makes of the novelist.” —Alain Robbe-Grillet “A postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland’s Fanny Hill.” —William S. Burroughs
Download or read book Elvis Memories Beyond Graceland Gates written by Mary Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biggest Elvis written by P.F. Kluge and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part mystery, part love story, part mordant commentary on America's waning presence in the world, this hugely entertaining novel tells the story of a trio of Elvis impersonators working out of the Graceland club in Olongapo, Phillipines. In their act, Baby Elvis, Dude Elvis and Biggest Elvis incarnate the King's evolving life. Their popularity grows. In a tawdry town, this successful act becomes almost an obsession. But there are those that think Biggest Elvis has to go. Re-envisioning the life of America's greatest hero, this is an edgy and evocative novel.
Download or read book Elvis written by June Juanico and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June Juanico recounts her romance with Elvis Presley in Biloxi, Mississippi, in the summer of 1955.
Download or read book Elvis Kathy Together at the Houston Summit 76 written by Darrin Lee Memmer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''ELVIS & Kathy - Together at the Houston Summit ''76'' (dedicated to Kathy Westmoreland) is an A5 format soft cover numbering 188 pages. "I believe in God. I believe in Him with all my heart. I believe all good things come from God. The way I feel, being religious means that you are grateful for all He has given, and want to work for Him. I owe everything that''s happened to me to Him. God is all ways there to pick you up if you should fail. A heart and song upon your lips for God loves you. But He loves you best when you sing." - Elvis A. Presley It''s really sad Elvis'' own loyal fans blindly accept the officially-sanctioned storyline that he was "loaded" onstage before 17,500 Texans in the summer of ''76. Another anecdote purports Elvis accidentally took too many sleeping pills prior to walking on stage for his 2:30 Houston Summit matinee and thus performed whilst groggy and half asleep. This biography proves nothing could be further from the truth! Kathy Discusses Lisa Marie Presley and ELVIS Darrin Lee [abbrev. DL]: "How much would it hurt or disappoint Elvis if Lisa Marie believed the accusations in the bodyguard book and elsewhere?"Kathy Westmoreland: "I don''t believe Elvis would survive. He couldn''t live. I think it would just kill him. From my heart, I''m telling you it would crush him more than anything anyone could possibly imagine." DL: "There couldn''t be anything worse happen to him than for his daughter to believe the drug accusations?"Kathy Westmoreland: "No. There could be nothing worse happen to him. I can''t think of anything. There''s nothing else that would hurt him more and Lisa was the only thing he worried about." DL: "Did he pretty much say, ''What''s my girl gonna think?'' " Kathy Westmoreland: "Yeah. ''What''s Lisa gonna think? What''s gonna happen to her? What''s she gonna believe?'' That was his big concern. He was just beside himself on realizing that she would be subjected to trying to figure all this out." DL: "In all the years that you knew Elvis, Kathy, was this the most hurt - the biggest heartbreak - that you observed?"Kathy Westmoreland: "It''s the biggest one. It''s the one." DL: "Do you recall Elvis asking, ''What if the public turns against me because of the bodyguard book?'' "Kathy Westmoreland: "I think he did say something to that effect, but he knew that he couldn''t please everybody and he would be the first to tell you that. He cared about Lisa. Knowing that she would believe it and be affected by it for the rest of her life - Elvis couldn''t have handled it. He''d have an instant heart attack." - From Kathy and Darrin''s photo chat - DL: "The picture of him flipping the middle finger is from Houston. A heckler screamed out: ''Elvis, you''re really fat!'' And the photographer, Mr. Manny Chavez, heard the heckle and started snapping. Elvis flipped the heckler off."Kathy Westmoreland: "Good." DL: "Because you''re liable to think, ''Darrin, what are you doing putting [out] a picture of Elvis with the middle finger?'' "Kathy Westmoreland: "Okay. That''s what the photo is about." DL: "He is saying, ''F'' you to some jerk."Kathy Westmoreland: "Good. I love it. He needed to do that more often." DL: "For all the people in the media and elsewhere that have called Elvis ''fat'', now you know what he thinks of you."Kathy Westmoreland (laughs): "That''s perfect!" DL: "Because since 1977, he has not been able to respond to these people who have ripped Elvis for his weight."Kathy Westmoreland: "Uh-huh." DL: "He''s never responded, Kathy."Kathy Westmoreland: "Huh-uh. ''Now, here is what he thinks of you.'' It''s perfect." DL: "That''s what the middle finger salute photo is about."Kathy Westmoreland: "Good. If I could have done it myself, I would have. I don''t remember hearing it (the heckle) in Houston." This project is published IN HONOR of Keith and Marsha Alverson - loyal fans of Elvis Aaron Presley.
Download or read book The Presley Family Cookbook written by Vester Presley and published by Wimmer Cookbooks. This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As head cook at Elvis Presley's Graceland, Rooks prepared food fit for the King from 1967 until his death. This collection contains classic recipes for Southern cooking at its best--including the must-have recipe for all Elvis fans: the original Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich.
Download or read book Elvis Presley written by Michael O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with rare photographs and stunning on-the-page facsimile memorabilia, this book provides an insight into the unique journey of one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century - Elvis Presley. Follow the incredible story of the man they call the "King of Rock and Roll." Elvis Presley's life and career are shown, from his carefree beginnings at Sun Records in the 1950s to global superstardom. In addition, the book features rare interviews with the legendary Elvis guitarist Scotty Moore, Drummer DJ Fontana, and Elvis's loyal backing singers the Jordanaires. To bring you even closer to the King the book features a wide variety of superb on-the-page rare memorabilia and documents from the archives, including tour posters, personal letters, publicity material, and fascinating items and tickets from his greatest gigs and best albums.
